Federal City College was housed in some 16 temporary facilities in DC. In the early 1970s, FCC was attempting to find permanent campus for FCC to be located at Mt. Vernon Square, home of the DC Public Library. A second permanent campus was sought...

District Of Columbia Teachers College;
Seals (Numismatics) -- Washington (D.C.) -- District Of Columbia Teachers College

Pursuant to the US Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the DC Board of Education Merged Miner Teachers College and Wilson Teachers College to Form DC Teachers College. Both Miner and Wilson Were Two Viable Colleges, so...

Myrtilla Miner’s school was inactive for a lack of funds between 1860 and 1871. A bill considered in the US Senate to incorporate the Institution for Colored Youth in Washington, DC, Feb. 17, 1863. This institution incorporated in 1863.
In 1871,...

Second official seal of Washington Technical Institute. Source: WTI Yearbook, 1970, p.167.
WTI was created at a time when over 60% of the adult wage earners in DC had six or less years of formal education, and lacked the skills necessary to obtain...

Eugene A. Clark (1883-1962) was the last principal of Miner Normal School and the first president of Miner Teachers College. Born in Washington DC, he received his degrees from Williams College and Miner Teachers College (1908). He taught in the DC...

University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia – Buildings;
University of the District of Columbia. Mt. Vernon Campus

UDC operated a Mount Vernon Campus for several years. In 1978, Congress approved construction of the Mt. Vernon Square Campus of UDC, but the DC Appropriations Committee refused to approve the funding. Eventually, UDC sold its Mt. Vernon campus and...

Alexander, Benjamin;
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia – Presidents

Dr. Benjamin H. Alexander served as the second President of UDC from 1982 through 1983. Dr. Alexander received his MS in Chemistry from Bradley University and his Ph.D in Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1957. He had once served as a member...

District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College – Buildings

The Truesdale School, named in honor of George Truesdell, a one-time Commissioner of the DC, is located at Eighth and Ingraham Streets, NW, in Washington, DC. For several years, it was the laboratory school of Wilson Teachers College. After Wilson...

Antioch School of Law; District of Columbia School of Law; District of Columbia Teachers College; Federal City College; Miner Normal School; Miner Teachers College; University of the District of Columbia; Washington Normal School; Washington...

The UDC Digital Archives Collection Contains Images Documenting the History of UDC and Its predecessor Institutions From 1851 to the Present. Therefore, in Addition to the University of the District of Columbia (Founded in 1976), Institutions...

Dr. Euphemia Haynes (1890-1980) had a distinguished career in Washington. She taught in the public schools of Washington, DC for forty-seven years and was the first woman to chair the DC School Board. She was a teacher of first grade at Garrison...

The Franklin School building, at 660 K Street NE, Washington, DC, was the first home for Wilson’s Teacher College, then known as the Washington Normal School. By an act of the Legislative Assembly for the DC Territorial Government, the new...

University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia -- Buildings

When UDC was created, the Van Ness campus was to house the Colleges of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, and Educations and Human Ecology. The College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the College of Business and Public...

Illustration of Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), founder of the Miner School, which became Miner Teachers College. Miss Miner was a native of New York, and had also taught planters’ daughters in Mississippi. Miss Miner became determined to improve the...